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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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I am taking the lead from GRP and we also invested alongside a number of friends including Dave McClure, Dave Tisch, Ben Smith (Merchant Circle), Brian Lee (ShoeDazzle, LegalZoom), Jason Calacanis, Evan Rifkin, Jennifer Lum, Jay Weintraub and a whole host of other angels. In the same year they won Business Insider’s Startup competition.

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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Michael Chasin: The most challenging part of any startup is getting in front of people, and finding customers. We''re talking about an industry which is very competitive, first, and two, one that people overwhelmingly try to avoid. It turns out lawyers are pretty easy to find. The third thing, is it just doesn''t come up that often.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. If you hit a groove on funding and customer growth it does become a challenge to ramp quickly. There is Adconian, Intelligent Beauty, LegalZoom, Burstly, ShoeDazzle and so many more I can barely name them all.